fruiterer
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of fruiterer
1375–1425; late Middle English; extended form of fruiter
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, a cash crunch means that people can barely afford to buy anything, said Mohammad Zaman, 52, a fruiterer who was tending to the makeshift stall he had set up on the highway divider.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2021
Now he has assets of $675,000,000 and, though no fruiterer, over 400 branches to ripen in California's business sun.*
From Time Magazine Archive
Inc. was bought by Transamerica, Mr. Armsby found himself working for his longtime California friend and oldtime fellow fruiterer, Amadeo Peter Giannini.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York--every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The remaining vessels of the fleet were fast dispersing over the sea—this Yankee "fruiterer" being the only one sailing within a league of us.
From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 by Ingraham, Joseph Holt
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